Discipline Quotations | Page 4

Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword of self-knowledge. Observe your discipline. Arise.

Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated.

If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.

As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

The references you do not verify are the good ones.

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.

Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done.

I meditate twice a day. I meditate two hours every day. I spend at least an hour working out. So that's three hours every day of something mind/body discipline. Other than that: nothing.

Yoga began as a philosophy rather than as a physical discipline.

I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

Do you have to discipline yourself to have breakfast, lunch or dinner? Of course not; and so discipline - the usual concept of it - doesn't apply here. I had to discipline myself to learn English, but never to train.

People say, My God, you're so disciplined. But it has nothing to do with discipline; I loved it. Because I knew that every time I went to the gym I was one step closer to winning the competition.

We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.

In life... we need to find a balance. You have to set rules and limitations - that is called discipline. And you have to practice that in all your worlds.

We're already saying it's not the dog, but you need to adopt this lifestyle which is exercise, discipline, and affection.

Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.

Discipline is remembering what you want most, not what you want now.

I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.

I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.

Christian marriage is marked by discipline and self-denial...C hristianity does not therefore depreciate marriage, it sanctifies it.

If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free.

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

[Though computer science is a fairly new discipline, it is predominantly based on the Cartesian world view. As Edsgar W. Dijkstra has pointed out] A scientific discipline emerges with the - usually rather slow! - discovery of which aspects can be meaningfully 'studied in isolation for the sake of their own consistency.

The most important thing you can learn as CEO- one of the hardest things to do is, you have to discipline yourself to see your company... through the eyes of the people that you're working through. Through the eyes of the employees, through the eyes of your partners... through the eyes of the people who you're not talking to and who are not in the room.

I have a very strong record of stern and strict discipline. But, I am also fair and we're fair to our program and we want to be fair with Chris. In our assessment of the situation, Chris did not act inappropriately.

I wouldn't put him in the five-hole if I didn't think he was (capable). I think he's got discipline. He's got a nice swing and I think he could be a very productive guy in our lineup hitting in the 5-6-7 hole.

Kids handle discipline different ways. Some get embarrassed. Some get mad. You just hope in the end they all use it the right way, and I think they will. I think the only way to get through to players today is playing time. It used to be running them, getting them out of bed and running them. Playing time, today, is really the answer. Hopefully, we won't have this again.

This was a good win for us tonight. We were competitive and were more organized down the stretch. Tonight we talked about not being impatient on defense, and playing each position for the full 24 seconds. There is no reason why we cannot play like this for the next 21 games. That is our challenge - to finish the season strong and to play with discipline like we did tonight.

I'd already seen the kind of discipline and quality of effort that was being put into our program. I just felt very strongly that Bobby did not need to be looking to the rear view mirror as to whether the university administration was supporting him. He needed to look through the front window,

Ideally, Ketchum's interim responsibilities become permanent and instill much needed discipline into Newell's tattered culture, ... buy.

I can't say enough about this whole team. With the injuries that we had, there were a lot of team and individual goals we didn't accomplish. But I have never had a better group of kids. There were no discipline problems, the team got along well, and they worked well with each other. You couldn't ask for a better group.

I can't say enough good things about our students. I know it's just the first week, but they're really doing a good job. We haven't had one discipline referral yet.

I can tell you this. Their discipline will reflect the department's disappointment.

Girls from the neighborhood who are 10 to 11 are great mother's helpers, and using them makes for great babysitter training. They learn your children's behaviors and personalities under your supervision, so they learn what is acceptable and how discipline is handled.

I feel really good. Our bats are coming alive, our discipline at the plate has improved greatly. We're hitting the ball through the whole lineup right now.

For us that is a breach of discipline. It has led us to a charge against the Turkish FA for a lack of order and discipline in the stadium.

I give him a lot of credit for showing that kind of discipline.

I believe that such a transgression undermines the good order and discipline of the military, ... ... It places the nomination in doubt in the U.S. Senate.

Caring for others is accomplished by a dazzling array of skills in an endless variety of circumstances. As well as cooking, shopping, cleaning, laundering, planting, tending, harvesting for others, women comfort and guide, nurse and teach, arrange and advise, discipline and encourage, fight for and pacify. Taxing and exhausting under any circumstances, this service work, this emotional housework, is done both outside and inside the home.

I apologized to my team for my lack of discipline, and then I went on the radio and apologized there. It reflects poorly on the program and I think we have a good program.

I fell in love with dance. It combines the artistry with discipline and the repetition that always appealed to the part of me that craves structure. It was a perfect match for what I wanted to be.

I felt like they needed discipline. You discipline them, but you discipline them out of love.

Basketball is a discipline game. There is a time for running and gunning and a time to slow things down.

have shown great poise and discipline throughout this episode.

He really understands training and possesses discipline and work ethic it takes to get better.

We've been winning everything lately and that's just a testament to the hard work and discipline these men possess.

He's a great kid. He does everything you ask him to do. He goes full speed. He has great discipline as a person and a player.

We've got to maintain our discipline and we've got to maintain composure (today in Game 2). We've got to come out and play hard for 60 minutes.

He was more concerned with his batting average than we were. We liked the plate discipline he showed (59 walks) and the power numbers. For a 20-year-old in that league, the walks and power numbers are great predictors for good things.

We made some errors in our discipline, and we gave away some silly penalties.

Hydrogeology is not a simple discipline, ... It's full of variables that are always changing.

We have to be more disciplined, doing what we do regardless of how the game is going or flowing. We lost our discipline in the first game.

We lost our composure for six or seven minutes and that cost us. It doesn't surprise me (because) that's been our biggest issue all year is having discipline and having composure. This time of year, it's magnified and you have to be even stronger and you've got to have a stronger will and stay in the hockey game.

We lost our discipline and we lost our composure, and at this time of year you need that. You can't lose focus of what you're doing. If something bad happens, you've got to stick to the plan and keep working.

I am extremely disappointed with this performance and the results showed a lack of commitment, discipline and responsibility on the mat by many of our wrestlers. We have two morning workouts a week specifically for conditioning and when kids don't bother to show up and then get gassed in matches and lose, it is all a reflection of their lack of being willing to do the work.

If someone were to violate the terms of their suspension, the league will investigate and allocate further discipline if necessary, discipline meaning fine or additional suspension." ()

He was a manager on the field. When he played, the manager's job was cut in half. He never had to discipline any player because Frank took care of that, whether you were a rookie or a veteran. If he thought you weren't giving your all, he'd let you know.

He's changed compensation plans, changed the nature of incentives for portfolio managers, introduced additional discipline in terms of how research was done and how risk was managed within the portfolios, and he takes a very strong personal hand in how we achieve our performance goals.

He who lives without discipline dies without honor.

He will be successful in whatever academic discipline he chooses to pursue.

He has become a vocal leader, he works hard and he handles discipline.

He had so much talent he thought he could make every throw from every angle. He eventually found out that it takes a little more discipline than that.

I'm a huge proponent of weight training. We lift at 6 because of the work ethic required, the discipline and doing the right thing. It makes them accountable. It makes them be on time.

Historic Grand Prix is a collective nostalgia in the discipline which becomes more and more hermetic to those who are not a part of it.

His managers should be tough on him. He could go on for 15 years but discipline and respect is essential.

Going to play with J.D. was a great lesson in discipline and timing,

Good discipline at the plate led us to an early lead and another win.

He's got the middle of the order guys behind him. Plate discipline and what you swing at is extremely important at the major-league level. For him to become a great hitter like people think he can be, he's going to have to learn to not offer at pitches around (but not in) the zone. This type of role will help him do that and understand that.

Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.

Under his stewardship the icon that was Mercedes-Benz has been devalued. There has been a loss of fiscal discipline within the group as money has been thrown at Chrysler. The decision to acquire Chrysler in the first place has not been a great success.

He's easily the most powerful Republican on Capitol Hill, and nobody's in his weight class. He exerts the kind of discipline that hasn't been seen in decades.

He's a truly gifted athlete. It takes an awful lot of discipline (to play against Williams), but even discipline is not enough. You end up in one-on-one situations and some of the times our ones won't be as good as their ones. We have to do a good job of helping each other out.

He's brought a sense of discipline to that program that it really needed. The people around him believe in him and what he's doing, and that's very important. They're building something really good down there, and I'm proud of what they've done.

If inspiration does not find you today, routine will.

Today marks a new day, a new era, a new season for this team. Lack of discipline will no longer be tolerated at any level. The events of the past week are unacceptable.

Having diabetes doesn't mean that you can never enjoy a piece of cake or pie. It does mean that you may have to identify what you will skip - for example, bread or mashed potatoes - in order to have a piece of cake or pie. It also means that you cannot eat the whole pie, but rather one small piece. If you do have diabetes ... discipline now will have great rewards later.

He embodies class, character, discipline and is a great family man. Bottom line -- Brad Childress is a winner.

There is no discipline equal to service to smother the ego and to fill the heart with genuine joy. To condemn service as demeaning and inferior is to forego these benefits.

There is a dress code at the school and there is a code of conduct we expect to adhere to. To me, it's a little more discipline and more presentable.

There is a fair amount of discipline and overhead involved in doing work offshore. Issues like configuration management and version control become dramatically more complex when you've got teams several time zones apart.

He had a lot of influence on me as a basketball player and as a young adult. He taught me about hard work, discipline and respect. He treated the best player on the team and the last player on the team equally, so I never got special treatment. Coach Tisdale was a great family man and that's one of the things I took from him. He touched a lot of lives, including mine.

We talked a little bit last year, but not a whole lot. I was pretty impressed with his discipline and patience at the plate. I think he has a lot of tools. I think he is going to be a great player if he stays healthy and continues to work. I didn't have the opportunity to spend a lot of time with him. From what I saw, he was pretty talented.

He made great progress from a year ago in approach and plate discipline. The quality of his at-bats were significantly better.

(Massachusetts) scored its goals on a couple of breakdowns and lack of discipline with our overall team shape early. They did the smart thing-they tried to sit on a two-goal lead and they did it, and we weren't able to crack them.

I say use Arts Walk as a goal, ... Create a body of work. It's a great way to discipline yourself, seeing if you can put together a show.

Spiritual discipline grows only in a field fertilized by Love.

Spiritual education is not a distinct and separate discipline; it is part and parcel of all types and levels of education, In fact, it is the very foundation on which a lasting edifice can be built.

Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Paul has seen the ups and down of developing young players and trusting the three, four years they've had in the minor leagues and discounting their first few months in the majors. Developing young players can be a lot of fun, but you've got to have the discipline to live with their mistakes and understand their trend line isn't always going to go straight up.

Our lack of discipline let us down and it does annoy me.

I will deal with any breach of club discipline with a heavy hand... I have left all the players in no doubt that there must be no repeat.

Penalties and turnovers probably put us in a hole more than anything else. It's a matter of focus and discipline, and penalties and turnovers really created the difference.

Penalties had been an issue and we were much better tonight. But our discipline in the last five minutes, we really have to clean that up.

I think they're facing the largest challenge I've seen in recent history, in terms of an administration having to decide whether they continue to borrow and spend, or whether they face up to very difficult choices that have to be made to discipline the budget. I think we'll find out in the next few months what that decision is going to be.